Saturday, July 7, 2007

Late-afternoon interlude

John Coltrane's excellent "Out of This World" is spinning in my head now. I read Ashley Kahn's "A Love Supreme" a few months ago. It details the journey his quartet took to make the seminal album. Now, lots of people have listened to it and have described it as a near-religious experience. I don't doubt them, but I didn't feel it when I listen to it. I do get that feeling listening to "Out of This World." The first time I heard it, I thought there was something really deep going on. I couldn't put my finger on it then, and can't quite now, but if you listen to it, you can feel it.

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